The United States trades metals and industrial/manufacturing goods with all of the affected countries, leading to the conclusion that the retaliatory tariffs are not meant to "balance the scales", but rather to impose an impermissible punishment. Trump's approach deserves more time to win concessions on important issues such as China's treatment of USA intellectual property, Burgum said.

"Price hikes caused by the increased tariffs would adversely affect these industries".

Gold. "Our trade adversaries are now targeting USA brands that they think will tell the story of why Trump's trade policy is a mistake" directly to his supporters.

China said on Thursday comments made by a senior White House official blaming Chinese President Xi Jinping for blocking progress on a deal to avert a trade war were "shocking" and "bogus" accusations.

The Trump administration hit China with tariffs on $34 billion worth of goods earlier this month.

The U.S. and China are threatening a trade war over Trump complaints that Chinese companies steal trade secrets and force U.S. firms to hand over technology in return for market access. Emerging markets in Asia would take the next biggest hit, with gross domestic product slipping by 0.7 percent in year two.

International agencies like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, warned in recent weeks that the trade war would negatively impact international trade and growth, he said. The retaliatory tariffs on up to a combined US$28.5 billion worth of U.S. exports are illegal under WTO rules, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said in a statement. If the winning party does not import same-sector goods, then you see if there are other goods covered by the WTO tariff schedule for that generic type of goods available for retaliatory tariffs. Opponents of the new trade restrictions lined up to vent as the Commerce Department held a hearing on whether auto imports pose a threat to US national security.

"The United States is holding a tariff bar and practicing trade-bullying worldwide, while advertising its grievances and innocence, and shifting the blame onto others in the meantime", Gao said. But WTO proceedings can drag on for years.

The report was released a day after the annual China-EU Summit in Beijing, where there were signs of progress on a bilateral investment treaty.

The US wins 87 per cent of the cases it brings to the WTO against other countries and loses 75 per cent of the cases other countries bring against Washington, according to a Bloomberg analysis of the 524 cases lodged at the Geneva-based organisation since it was founded in 1995 as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.

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